What Is a Mental Health Professional?
Mental health, also known as mental health, is a psychological principle and method of protecting and enhancing people's mental health. Mental health can not only prevent the occurrence of mental illness, but also cultivate people's personality, cultivate their sentiments, and promote their mental health. The content of mental health is very extensive. Different ages have different psychological characteristics, and the content of mental health is also different. At different ages, people have certain physical and psychological characteristics, and there are psychological problems associated with them. According to the physical and mental characteristics of different ages, the effective prevention of some psychological conflicts and the timely resolution of some psychological problems are the main goals of individual mental health.
Mental health generally refers to mental health
- Chinese name
- Mental health
- Foreign name
- mental hygiene; psychophylaxis; psychoprophylaxis
- Important organization
- World Mental Health Federation, etc.
- Typical disease
- Depression, Alzheimer's, etc.
- Mental health, also known as mental health, is a psychological principle and method of protecting and enhancing people's mental health. Mental health can not only prevent the occurrence of mental illness, but also cultivate people's personality, cultivate their sentiments, and promote their mental health. The content of mental health is very extensive. Different ages have different psychological characteristics, and the content of mental health is also different. At different ages, people have certain physical and psychological characteristics, and there are psychological problems associated with them. According to the physical and mental characteristics of different ages, the effective prevention of some psychological conflicts and the timely resolution of some psychological problems are the main goals of individual mental health.
Mental health
- Professor Xiao Hanshi believes that mental health is a variety of practical activities that use psychological methods to promote, maintain and restore mental health. Mental health work includes four aspects: one is to carry out psychological correction services to restore mental health; the other is to carry out mental health education to popularize and maintain mental health knowledge; the third is to prevent psychological problems by improving psychological qualities; Reduce adverse psychological stimulation [1] .
History of Mental Health
- The origin of the idea of mental health can be traced back to the ancient Greek times. But the modern mental health movement began in the early 20th century. Intriguingly, her founder and advocate was Americans with a history of mental illness.
- Mental health related pictures
Mental health content
- Paying attention to hygiene, preventing diseases, and maintaining good health have been widely valued by people. However, how do you consider hygiene? I'm afraid this is quite different in terms of views and practices. Many people think of public health, pay attention to personal hygiene, strengthen physical exercise, take appropriate nutrition, do not eat spoiled food, etc. These are undoubtedly important. However, doing so can only prevent the invasion of the human body by the microorganisms seen under the microscope. It can only strengthen the muscles of the bones and muscles, and it cannot ensure the health of people. At this time, because life is alive, it is inevitable to suffer from various contradictions and setbacks, so social and psychological factors also endanger people's health. For example, if a person is physically strong but has poor intelligence and abnormal personality, and cannot work and live normally, how can he be said to be "healthy"? Therefore, the World Health Organization has revised the definition of health as: "Health not only has no physical defects and diseases, but also has complete physiological, psychological and social adaptability." That is to say, to be healthy, people must be physically fit and physically and mentally healthy. This kind of health is really healthy. What can we do to achieve the goal of comprehensive physical and mental health? Forty years ago, Professor Pan Mao, an outstanding Chinese psychologist, pointed out: "We study physical health because we pay attention to physical health; we must pay attention to mental health if we want to achieve sound psychological development." From this perspective, mental health is a means to achieve mental health.
- Healthy mental state and complete social adaptability are inseparable from physical hygiene. Because psychology and physiology affect each other, psychological unhealthy can cause harm to the physiological state (human body). Therefore, mental health is more important than physical health in a sense. If people's psychology is not normal, on the one hand, it will affect people's physical health through psychological ways to affect their physiology, and even cause diseases, especially various chronic diseases, such as various psychosomatic diseases. On the other hand, once people's psychology has fallen into an abnormal state (the mild person develops neurosis or personality disorder, and the severe person develops various mental illnesses), the social adaptability of the person will be destroyed, and even normal family and social activities cannot be performed. This will cause great distress and misfortune to individuals and families, and even cause harm to the entire society. The tasks of mental health are multi-faceted, and the primary task is mostly in the young and middle ages, to prevent the occurrence of serious damage to the social labor force. Patients with mental illness usually cannot take care of themselves; in the state of excitement and excitement, they can also damage or hurt themselves, destroying production and affecting society. Therefore, improving people's mental health and preventing mental illness is one of the tasks facing the whole society. The second is to formulate mental health principles and measures to cultivate and exercise healthy "personality." The third is to formulate general mental health principles and methods for maintaining mental health at all ages according to the different psychological characteristics of different ages in life (including infant, child, adolescent, adolescent, middle-aged and elderly). . The fourth is to provide the principles and measures of mental health that people should pay attention to when performing activities in various areas of life, work and labor.
- In short, mental health is not only an issue for individuals but also for the whole society. Because mental health is not only related to the individual healthy development of each person, but also to the healthy development of the entire family and the entire nation. With the advancement of society, the rapid improvement of material civilization and the rapid development of science and technology, interpersonal relationships in society have become more complicated, the rhythm of life has become more intense, and more and more factors threaten people's mental health. Therefore, mental health issues become more complex and important. Under China's superior socialist system, the physical and mental health of the people has received special attention and attention from the state and the government, creating the most fundamental good conditions for maintaining and maintaining people's mental health.
Mental health principles
- The basic principles of mental health are as follows: establish a correct outlook on life. Since youth, people's self-awareness has matured, they can conduct self-assessment, self-examination and self-promotion, and they can also correctly evaluate the behavior of others. A person who has established a correct worldview can have a correct understanding of society and life, and can scientifically analyze what is happening around him. To ensure that the psychological response is moderate and to prevent abnormal psychological responses.
- Prevent and overcome psychological conflicts. Subjective requirements and objective restrictions may cause strong psychological conflicts or persistent psychological conflicts. Under certain conditions, it can cause mental illness. In life, study and work, it is inevitable that psychological conflicts often occur, but the intensity should not be controlled too fast and the duration should not be too long. With psychological conflicts, we must try to resolve them properly and not treat them negatively.
- Participate in useful group activities. If a person is often separated from the group and does not interact with others, he is likely to develop a lonely mood, often feeling depressed or lonely, and affecting mental health. A person often participates in useful collective activities and conducts normal and friendly exchanges, which can make people clear of sorrow, open-hearted, uplifted, and happy.
- Be self-aware. Learn about your strengths and weaknesses, and your own physical and mental health. Often use mental health standards to measure your own behavior and promote mental health. Do things according to your own intelligence and other circumstances. Do not set goals that cannot be achieved through hard work. Otherwise, you will be vulnerable to setbacks, psychological conflicts, emotional unrest, and affect mental health.
- In addition, maintaining a healthy body, living a regular life, removing bad habits, and maintaining optimistic moods are all principles of mental health.
Mental health
- The new WHO age division proposes:
- Youth under 45
- 45-59 years old
- 60-74 is the young or old
- 75-89 years old
- 90 years old or older
- 1. China's elderly population aged 60 and over has reached 126 million, accounting for 10% of the total population, and the elderly population will continue to grow at an annual rate of 3.2%. It is estimated that it will reach 290 million by 2025. Elderly mental health problems include mental illness in old age and mental problems specific to old age. Mental illness in the elderly such as Alzheimer's disease (Alzheimer's disease), elderly depression and so on. Psychological problems unique to old age include psychological aging, psychological adaptation after retirement, widowed and remarried, and the "empty nest phenomenon".
- 2. Psychological characteristics and psychological changes in old age
- The sensibility to external things gradually declines and learning new things is slow, but the rich experience and life experience of the elderly can make up for the lack of psychological functions to a certain extent. Slow attention transfer and difficulty in distribution. Rote memorization is worse than when it was young, but the memory ability after comprehension has not significantly deteriorated. Imagination is limited by experience, and it is difficult to be active and love. Negativeness, depression, easy irritability, sadness, fear, dissatisfaction, etc., emotional fragility, life and social circles become smaller, showing fear, fear, worry, and even rejection of new and unfamiliar things, areas.
- 3. Self-concept and changing personality of older people
- The concept of self is how to look at the self. The self concept of the elderly is: Am I getting old? Is it valuable? Am I really out of use? What hope is there in my life? We encourage: can accept their own physiological aging, but also accept some changes in their psychological function. Reasons for encouragement: more self-acceptance, self-affirmation, more initiative to adapt to role changes, and adjust their role behavior. The personality change of the elderly varies from person to person, and generally has both stable and continuous characteristics, and at the same time, due to the influence of physiological factors, environment, psychosocial factors, cognition and life experience, there will be some changes in personality, making the personality have a Changing characteristics.
Standards reached by mental health
- The purpose of mental health is to achieve mental health, but is there a standard for mental health? Psychologists have done a lot of work on this complex issue, but there is no universally accepted ideal standard. In order to make mental health a general follow, ten revised standards of Maslow and Mittelman, American psychologists, are listed below for reference only.
- 1. Have a sufficient sense of security;
- 2. Fully understand yourself and be able to make appropriate estimates of your abilities;
- 3. Life goals and ideals are realistic;
- 4. Keep in touch with the real environment;
- 5. Can maintain the integrity and harmony of personality;
- 6. Ability to learn from experience;
- 7. Maintain good interpersonal relationships;
- 8. Moderate emotional release and control;
- 9. Limited use of personality without prejudice to collective will;
- 10. Appropriately meet the basic needs of individuals without violating social ethics.
- According to the strict comparison of the above ten standards, it can be said that it is difficult to find a person who is completely mentally healthy. Therefore, we can only say that those who pay attention to mental health are close to the above standards, and those who do not pay attention to mental health are far away from the above standards. Far from the above standards, not only personality abnormalities, but also susceptible to all kinds of psychogenic diseases. Therefore, for mental health, everyone should pay attention to mental health.
Mental health tasks
- Everyone must pay attention to mental health, and pay attention to mental health in all walks of life. People must not only pay attention to their own mental health, but also take care of the mental health of the elderly and children. Therefore, the scope of mental health is very wide, and with the development of society and the advancement of science and technology, the scope of mental health will expand. From the current situation of mental health work outside China, the scope of mental health work can be summarized as the following four aspects: First, to guide marriage, spouse, conception and other processes from the perspective of eugenics, and improve the mental health of individuals; Second, study the mental health of all ages (such as children, adolescents, youth, middle-aged, elderly)
- Mental Health-Work Area
- Mental health includes all measures aimed at improving and maintaining mental health, such as keeping people at the level of physical and mental health for activities according to their own physical and mental potential, reducing the mental (psychological) pressure on people in a world full of conflict, and psychological barriers Prevention and rehabilitation of mental illness.